Crypto Hipster

Jupiter IV: What We Really InheritWhat happens when something you create becomes larger than you?In this solo episode of the Crypto Hipster Podcast, Jamil Hasan continues his journey through Inheriting Saturn by revisiting four conversations from the podcast archive—conversations that once seemed to be about NFTs, art, technology, and innovation.Five years later, they sound very different.A graffiti artist discovers that creativity can become responsibility. A conservation entrepreneur realizes that protecting wildlife means protecting the habitat that allows it to survive. An artist and founder builds technology designed to deserve trust rather than simply asking for it. And a former soldier transforms one of the world's most recognizable weapons into a canvas for reflection.Four founders. Four stories. One recurring idea:What has been entrusted to us?Jupiter represents expansion—growth, possibility, opportunity. But expansion creates responsibility. Eventually, what we build begins affecting customers, communities, families, cultures, ecosystems, and people we may never meet.That's where ownership begins becoming stewardship.This episode explores responsibility, trust, transformation, legacy, and one of the central ideas behind Inheriting Saturn:You don't always choose what comes into your hands. You choose what leaves your hands.Crypto Hipster: Making sense of the digital economy through the people building it.

What does it take to build trust in the next generation of financial infrastructure?In this episode of Crypto Hipster, I sit down with Ludovico Rossi, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Brickken, to explore the founder journey behind building institutional infrastructure for tokenized assets.Rather than focusing on products or price, our conversation explores:• Why trust matters more than hype• The evolution from founder to leader• Regulation as an enabler of innovation• Building infrastructure that outlasts market cycles• AI, tokenization, and machine-readable finance• What stewardship looks like when building for the futureThis is a conversation about people, leadership, and the long arc of innovation.

What does it take to build trust in an industry that has lived through repeated cycles of hype, collapse, and reinvention?In this conversation, I sit down with Kyle Sonlin, Co-Founder & President of Global Settlement Network, to discuss the founder's journey behind the technology.Rather than focusing on products, we explore:• Building through multiple market cycles• Leadership under pressure• Stewardship versus ownership• Lessons learned from the FTX era• What institutions need before they'll trust new technology• Why confidence—not hype—is the foundation of lasting systemsThis is a conversation about resilience, leadership, and the people building the future of capital markets.#CryptoHipster #Leadership #Entrepreneurship #Blockchain #Tokenization #CapitalMarkets #Stewardship #DigitalEconomy

What allows a system to endure long after its creator steps away?In this episode of Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls, Jamil Hasan brings together four conversations that, on the surface, appear to have little in common—but together reveal one of the central themes of Inheriting Saturn.Featuring:David "Oz" OsterczyDrew MillerSara NematiAmelia TomasicchioFrom creativity and resilience to community and adoption, each guest explores a different stage in the lifecycle of enduring systems.Creation begins the journey.Preparation allows systems to survive uncertainty.Communities carry ideas forward.Adoption transforms innovation into everyday reality.This episode examines why stewardship—not ownership—is ultimately what determines whether organizations, technologies, and ideas stand the test of time.Curtain Calls is a companion series to Inheriting Saturn, connecting years of founder conversations into a broader exploration of leadership, responsibility, trust, and the human side of systems.

Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin, but his greatest contribution may have been something far less technical: the decision to disappear.In this episode, I explore why stewardship begins when ownership ends, and why every founder eventually faces the same question:Can the system survive without me?Using Satoshi as a lens, we examine legacy, decentralization, leadership, and the responsibilities that outlive the people who create enduring systems.Inheriting Saturn is a series about stewardship, inheritance, and the ideas that continue long after their creators are gone.

What does it take to build financial infrastructure that spans borders?In this Founder's Journey episode, Bernardo Brites shares how a curiosity about technology evolved into building Trace Finance, a company focused on connecting traditional finance with stablecoin-powered payments.We discuss entrepreneurship, Brazil's financial ecosystem, the practical role of stablecoins, regulation, and the realities of building financial infrastructure in emerging markets.